Conflicts
Containment
Information
Space Race
Institutions
100
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
200
When China became a Communist country, the United States could have invaded it to prevent the spread of Communism. It did not, why?
It was simply too large with a powerful standing army.
200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200
Name of the Chinese Communist leader who committed mass genocide to convert China into a Communist country.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The division between the Democratic West and the Communist East became known as the ________ ________ which was first coined by Winston Churchill.
What is The Iron Curtain?
300
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
300
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and th US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
400
The plan of the United States in regard to Communism was...
What is Containment?
400
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the United States was ever at war with the Soviet Union. The reason for this was due to ________ which is the threat of using nuclear weapons and going to the brink (edge) of war if necessary.
What is brinkmanship?
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
What is NASA?
500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
500
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists and would use a group known as HUAC to investigate. This would become known in history as...
What is McCarthyism?
500
What the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other. Also include the acronym of why these were never used against one another.
What are nuclear weapons?
What is M.A.D.
500
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
What is the U.S.?
500
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?